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This article is about the company known as AT&T since 2005. For the original AT&T
(American Telephone & Telegraph) founded in 1885, see AT&T Corporation. For other
uses, see AT&T (disambiguation).
This article is about the company named Southwestern Bell Corporation from 1983 to
1995. For the telephone company founded in 1882, see Southwestern Bell.
AT&T Inc.
AT&T logo 2016.svg
New AT&T Logo in Dallas, TX.jpeg
AT&T's corporate headquarters in Dallas, Texas
Formerly called
Southwestern Bell Corporation (19831995)
SBC Communications (19952005)
Type
Public
Traded as
NYSE: T
S&P 100 Component
S&P 500 Component
Industry
Telecommunications
Mass media
Founded October 5, 1983; 34 years ago[1]
Headquarters Dallas, Texas, United States
Area served
Worldwide
Key people
Randall Stephenson
(Chairman, CEO and President)
Products
Satellite television
Fixed line telephone
Mobile phone
Broadband
Digital television
Home security
IPTV
OTT Services
Network security
Revenue Increase US$163.8 billion (2016)[2]
Operating income
Steady US$24.347 billion (2016)[2]
Net income
Steady US$13.33 billion (2016)[2]
Total assets Increase US$403.82 billion (2016)[2]
Total equity Increase US$124.11 billion (2016)[2]
Number of employees
273,000[3]
Divisions
AT&T Communications
AT&T International[4][5][6][7]
Subsidiaries
AT&T Corporation
AT&T Digital Life
AT&T Mexico
AT&T Mobility
AT&T U-verse
AT&T Labs
BellSouth
Cricket Wireless
DirecTV
Otter Media (50%)
Quickplay Media
Southwestern Bell
Vyatta
Website www.att.com
AT&T Inc. is an American multinational conglomerate holding company, headquartered
at Whitacre Tower in downtown Dallas, Texas.[8] AT&T is the world's largest
telecommunications company.[9] AT&T is the second largest provider of mobile
telephone services and the largest provider of fixed telephone services in the
United States,[10] and also provides broadband subscription television services
through DirecTV; combined with AT&T's legacy U-verse service, this also makes AT&T
the largest pay television operator. AT&T is the second-largest company in Texas,
behind ExxonMobil.[11] As of February 2017, AT&T is the 12th largest company in the
world (non-oil[12] and overall[13]) as measured by a composite of revenues,
profits, assets and market valuation. AT&T is the largest telecommunications
company in the world by revenue. As of 2017, it is also the 21st-largest mobile
telecom operator in the world, with 138.8 million mobile customers.[14] AT&T was
ranked at #4 on the 2017 rankings of the world's most valuable brands published by
Brand Finance.[15]
AT&T Inc. began its history as Southwestern Bell Telephone Company, which was a
subsidiary of the Bell Telephone Company founded by Alexander Graham Bell in 1880.
Bell Telephone Company evolved into American Telephone and Telegraph Company in
1885 which had since rebranded to AT&T Corporation. Following the 1982 United
States v. AT&T antitrust lawsuit, this resulted in the divestiture of AT&T Corp.'s
("Ma Bell") subsidiaries or Regional Bell Operating Companies ("Baby Bells"),
resulting in several independent companies including Southwestern Bell
Corporation . Southwestern Bell Corporation changed its name to SBC Communications
Inc. in 1995. In 2005, SBC purchased former parent AT&T Corporation and took on its
branding, with the merged entity naming itself AT&T Inc. and using the iconic AT&T
Corp. logo and stock-trading symbol. In 2006, AT&T Inc. acquired BellSouth, the
last of the independent Baby Bell, making their formerly joint venture Cingular
Wireless (which had acquired AT&T Wireless in 2004) wholly owned and rebranding it
to AT&T Mobility.
The current AT&T Inc. reconstitutes much of the former Bell System and includes ten
of the original 22 Bell Operating Companies, along with the original long distance
division.[16]
Contents [hide]
1 History
1.1 Origin and growth (18821981)
1.2 Breakup and reformation (19822004)
1.3 Purchase of former parent and acquisitions (20052014)
1.4 Recent developments (20142017)
2 Landline operating companies
2.1 Former operating companies
2.2 Future of rural landlines
3 Corporate structure
3.1 Holding companies and subsidiaries
3.2 Facilities and regions
3.3 Corporate governance
4 Political involvement
5 Historical financial performance
6 Criticism and controversies
6.1 Hemisphere database
6.2 Censorship
6.3 Privacy controversy
6.4 Intellectual property filtering
6.5 Discrimination against local Public-access television channels
6.6 Information security
6.7 Accusations of enabling fraud
6.8 Racism
6.9 Trademark violation
7 Naming rights and sponsorships
7.1 Buildings
7.2 Venues
7.3 Sponsorships
7.4 Miscellaneous
8 See also
9 References
10 External links
History[edit]
Main article: History of AT&T
Origin and growth (18821981)[edit]
See also: History of AT&T Origins, and History of AT&T Monopoly
AT&T can trace its origin back to the original Bell Telephone Company founded by
Alexander Graham Bell after his invention of the telephone.[17] One of that
company's subsidiaries was American Telephone and Telegraph Company (AT&T),
established in 1885,[18] which acquired the Bell Company on December 31, 1899, for
legal reasons, leaving AT&T as the main company. AT&T established a network of
subsidiaries in the United States and Canada that held a government-authorized
phone service monopoly, formalized with the Kingsbury Commitment, throughout most
of the twentieth century. This monopoly was known as the Bell System,[19] and
during this period, AT&T was also known by the nickname Ma Bell.[20] For periods of
time, the former AT&T was the world's largest phone company.
Breakup and reformation (19822004)[edit]

AT&T Corporate Logo, 19831996

AT&T Corporate Logo, 19962005

See also: Breakup of AT&T and History of AT&T Post break-up restructuring
In 1982, U.S. regulators broke up the AT&T monopoly, requiring AT&T to divest its
regional subsidiaries and turning them each into individual companies. These new
companies were known as Regional Bell Operating Companies, or more informally, Baby
Bells.[21] AT&T continued to operate long distance services, but as a result of
this breakup, faced competition from new competitors such as MCI and Sprint.
Southwestern Bell was one of the companies created by the breakup of AT&T Corp. The
architect of divestiture for Southwestern Bell was Robert G. Pope. The company soon
started a series of acquisitions. This includes the 1987 acquisition of Metromedia
mobile business and the acquisition of several cable companies in the early 1990s.
In the later half of the 1990s, the company acquired several other
telecommunications companies, including some Baby Bells, while selling its cable
business. During this time, the company changed its name to SBC Communications. By
1998, the company was in the top 15 of the Fortune 500, and by 1999 the company was
part of the Dow Jones Industrial Average (lasting through 2015).
Purchase of former parent and acquisitions (20052014)[edit]

AT&T Corporate Logo, 20052015

See also: History of AT&T Rise of SBC, and History of AT&T Post-consolidation
wireless acquisitions
In 2005, SBC purchased AT&T for $16 billion. After this purchase, SBC adopted the
better-known AT&T name and brand, with the original AT&T Corp. still existing as
the long-distance landline subsidiary of the merged company. The current AT&T
claims the original AT&T Corp.'s history (dating to 1885) as its own, though its
corporate structure only dates from 1983.[22] It also retains SBC's pre-2005 stock
price history, and all regulatory filings prior to 2005 are for Southwestern
Bell/SBC, not AT&T Corp.
In September 2013, AT&T Inc. announced it would expand into Latin America through a
collaboration with Carlos Slim's Amrica Mvil.[23] In December 2013, AT&T
announced plans to sell its Connecticut wireline operations to Stamford-based
Frontier Communications.[24]
Recent developments (20142017)[edit]
See also: History of AT&T Recent developments
AT&T purchased the Mexican carrier Iusacell in late 2014,[25] and two months later
purchased the Mexican wireless business of NII Holdings,[26] merging the two
companies to create AT&T Mexico.
In July 2015, AT&T purchased DirecTV for $48.5 billion, or $67.1 billion including
assumed debt,[27] subject to certain conditions.[28][29] AT&T subsequently
announced plans to converge its existing U-verse home internet and IPTV brands with
DirecTV, to create AT&T Entertainment.[30][31][32]
In an effort to increase its media holdings,[33][34][35] on October 22, 2016, AT&T
announced a deal to buy Time Warner for $108.7 billion.[36][37][38]
AT&T also owns approximately a 2% stake in Canadian-domiciled entertainment company
Lionsgate.[39]
On July 13, 2017, it was reported that AT&T is going to introduce a cloud-based DVR
streaming service as part of its effort to create a unified platform across DirecTV
and its DirecTV Now streaming service, with U-verse to be added soon.[40][41][42]
On September 12, 2017, it was reported that AT&T is planning to launch a brand new
cable TV-like service for delivery over-the-top over its own or a competitor's
broadband network sometime next year.[43]
On November 20, 2017, Assistant Attorney General Makan Delrahim filed a lawsuit for
the United States Department of Justice Antitrust Division to block the merger with
Time Warner, citing it "will harm competition, result in higher bills for consumers
and less innovation."[44][45]
Landline operating companies[edit]
Of the twenty-four companies that were part of the Bell System, ten are a part of
the current AT&T:[46]
BellSouth Telecommunications (formerly known as Southern Bell; includes former
South Central Bell)
Illinois Bell
Indiana Bell
Michigan Bell
Ohio Bell
Pacific Bell (formerly Pacific Telephone & Telegraph)
Nevada Bell (formerly known as Bell Telephone Company of Nevada)
Southwestern Bell
Wisconsin Bell (formerly Wisconsin Telephone)
Former operating companies[edit]

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The following companies have become defunct or were sold under SBC/AT&T ownership:
Southern New England Telephone: sold to Frontier Communications in 2014[47]
Woodbury Telephone: merged into Southern New England Telephone on June 1, 2007.
Future of rural landlines[edit]
AT&T stated that it would declare the intentions for its rural landlines on
November 7, 2012.[48] AT&T had previously announced that it was considering a sale
of its rural landlines, which are not wired for AT&T's U-verse service; however, it
has also stated that it may keep the business after all.
AT&T was not the first Baby Bell to sell off rural landlines. Ameritech sold some
of its Wisconsin lines to CenturyTel in 1998; BellSouth sold some of its lines to
MebTel in the 2000s; U S WEST sold many historically Bell landlines to Lynch
Communications and Pacific Telecom in the 1990s; Verizon sold many of its New
England lines to FairPoint in 2008 and its West Virginia operations to Frontier
Communications in 2010.
On October 25, 2014, Frontier Communications took over control of the AT&T landline
network in Connecticut after being approved by state utility regulators. The deal
was worth about $2 billion, and included Frontier inheriting about 2,500 of AT&T's
employees and many of AT&T's buildings.[49]
Corporate structure[edit]
AT&T and subsidiaries.png
Holding companies and subsidiaries[edit]

AT&T office in San Antonio, Texas, with new logo and orange highlight from the
former Cingular
AT&T Inc. has retained the holding companies it has acquired over the years
resulting in the following corporate structure:
AT&T Inc., publicly traded holding company
AT&T Arkansas, AT&T Kansas, AT&T Missouri, AT&T Oklahoma, AT&T Southwest, AT&T
Texas
AT&T Teleholdings Inc, AT&T East, AT&T Midwest, AT&T West
AT&T Illinois
AT&T Indiana
AT&T Michigan
AT&T Ohio
AT&T Wisconsin
AT&T California
AT&T Nevada
AT&T Corp., acquired 2005
AT&T Alascom d/b/a AT&T Alaska
AT&T South
AT&T Alabama, AT&T Florida, AT&T Georgia, AT&T Louisiana, AT&T Kentucky, AT&T
Mississippi, AT&T North Carolina, AT&T South Carolina, AT&T Southeast, AT&T
Tennessee
AT&T Mobility
Cricket Wireless
AT&T Mexico[50]
DirecTV
Facilities and regions[edit]
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The company is headquartered at Whitacre Tower in downtown Dallas, Texas.[8] On
June 27, 2008, AT&T announced that it would move its corporate headquarters from
downtown San Antonio to One AT&T Plaza in downtown Dallas.[8][51] The company said
that it moved to gain better access to its customers and operations throughout the
world, and to the key technology partners, suppliers, innovation and human
resources needed as it continues to grow, domestically and internationally.[52]
AT&T Inc. previously relocated its corporate headquarters to San Antonio from St.
Louis, Missouri, in 1992, when it was then named Southwestern Bell Corporation. The
company's Telecom Operations group, which serves residential and regional business
customers in 22 U.S. states, remains in San Antonio.[citation needed] Atlanta,
Georgia, continues to be the headquarters for AT&T Mobility, with significant
offices in Redmond, Washington, the former home of AT&T Wireless. Bedminster, New
Jersey, is the headquarters for the company's Global Business Services group and
AT&T Labs. St. Louis continues as home to the company's Directory operations, AT&T
Advertising Solutions.[53]
AT&T offers also services in many locations throughout the Asia Pacific; its
regional headquarters is located in Hong Kong.[54] The company is also active in
Mexico, and it was announced on November 7, 2014, that Mexican carrier Iusacell is
being acquired by AT&T.[25] The acquisition was approved in January 2015.[citation
needed] On April 30, 2015, AT&T acquired wireless operations Nextel Mexico from NII
Holdings (now AT&T Mexico).[55]
Corporate governance[edit]
CEO Randall L. Stephenson at the 2008 World Economic Forum
See also: Category:AT&T people
AT&T's current board of directors as of November 2016:[56]
Randall L. Stephenson chairman
Joyce M. Roch
Samuel A. DiPiazza, Jr.
Richard W. Fisher
Scott T. Ford
Glenn H. Hutchins
William E. Kennard
Michael B. McCallister
Beth E. Mooney
Matthew K. Rose
Cynthia B. Taylor
Laura D'Andrea Tyson
Geoffrey Y. Yang[56]
The current management as of August 2017 includes:[57]
Randall L. Stephenson chief executive officer (CEO)
William A. Blase, Jr. - senior executive vice president of human resources
John J. Stephens senior executive vice president and chief financial officer
(CFO)
David S. Huntley senior executive vice president and chief compliance officer
Lori Lee CEO of AT&T International Inc.
David R. McAtee II senior executive vice president and general counsel
Robert W. Quinn Jr. senior executive vice president of external and legislative
affairs
John Donovan CEO of AT&T Communications Inc.
John Stankey CEO of Unnamed Media Division
Political involvement[edit]
According to the Center for Responsive Politics, AT&T is the second-largest donor
to United States political campaigns,[58] and the top American corporate donor,[59]
having contributed more than US$47.7 million since 1990, 56% of which went to
Republicans and 44% of which went to Democrats.[60] As an example, in 2005, AT&T
was among 53 entities that contributed the maximum of $250,000 to the second
inauguration of President George W. Bush.[61][62][63] Bill Leahy, representing
AT&T, sits on the Private Enterprise Board of the American Legislative Exchange
Council (ALEC).[64] ALEC is a nonprofit organization of conservative state
legislators and private sector representatives that drafts and shares model state-
level legislation for distribution among state governments in the United States.
[65][66][67]
During the period of 1998 to 2010, the company expended US$130 million on lobbying
in the United States.[59] A key political issue for AT&T has been the question of
which businesses win the right to profit by providing broadband internet access in
the United States.[68] The company has also lobbied in support of several federal
bills. AT&T supported the Federal Communications Commission Process Reform Act of
2013 (H.R. 3675; 113th Congress), a bill that would make a number of changes to
procedures that the U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) follows in its
rulemaking processes.[69] The FCC would have to act in a more transparent way as a
result of this bill, forced to accept public input about regulations.[70] AT&T's
Executive Vice President of Federal Relations, Tim McKone, said that the bill's
"much needed institutional reforms will help arm the agency with the tools to keep
pace with the Internet speed of today's marketplace. It will also ensure that
outmoded regulatory practices for today's competitive marketplace are properly
placed in the dustbin of history."[71]
Historical financial performance[edit]
The financial performance of the company is reported to shareholders on an annual
basis and a matter of public record. The unit (except where noted) is billions of
US dollars. Where performance has been restated, the most recent statement of
performance from an annual report is used.[72][73][74][2]
Year 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013
2014 2015 2016
Revenues 45.38 42.82 40.50 40.79 43.86 63.06 118.9 124.0 122.5 124.8 126.7 127.4
128.8 132.4 146.8 163.8
Net Income 7.008 5.653 8.505 5.887 4.768 7.356 11.95 12.87 12.12 19.09 3.944 7.264
18.25 6.224 13.69 13.33
Assets 96.42 95.17 102.0 110.3 145.6 270.6 275.6 265.2 268.3 268.5 270.3 272.3
277.8 292.8 402.7 403.8
Number of employees (thousands) 193.4 175.0 168.0 162.7 190.0 304.2 309.1 302.7
282.7 266.6 256.4 241.8 243.4 243.6 281.5 268.5
Criticism and controversies[edit]
Hemisphere database[edit]
Main article: Hemisphere Project
The company maintains a database of call detail records of all telephone calls that
have passed through its network since 1987. AT&T employees work at High Intensity
Drug Trafficking Area offices (operated by the Office of National Drug Control
Policy) in Los Angeles, Atlanta, and Houston so data can be quickly turned over to
law enforcement agencies. Records are requested via administrative subpoena,
without the involvement of a court or grand jury.
Censorship[edit]
In September 2007, AT&T changed its legal policy to state that "AT&T may
immediately terminate or suspend all or a portion of your Service,[75] any Member
ID, electronic mail address, IP address, Universal Resource Locator or domain name
used by you, without notice for conduct that AT&T believes ... (c) tends to damage
the name or reputation of AT&T, or its parents, affiliates and subsidiaries."[76]
By October 10, 2007, AT&T had altered the terms and conditions for its Internet
service to explicitly support freedom of expression by its subscribers, after an
outcry claiming the company had given itself the right to censor its subscribers'
transmissions.[77] Section 5.1 of AT&T's new terms of service now reads "AT&T
respects freedom of expression and believes it is a foundation of our free society
to express differing points of view. AT&T will not terminate, disconnect or suspend
service because of the views you or we express on public policy matters, political
issues or political campaigns."[78]
Privacy controversy[edit]

Diagram of how alleged wiretapping worked. From EFF court filings[79]

Further information: NSA call database, Mark Klein, NSA warrantless surveillance
controversy, and Hepting v. AT&T
In 2006, the Electronic Frontier Foundation lodged a class action lawsuit, Hepting
v. AT&T, which alleged that AT&T had allowed agents of the National Security Agency
(NSA) to monitor phone and Internet communications of AT&T customers without
warrants. If true, this would violate the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of
1978 and the First and Fourth Amendments of the U.S. Constitution. AT&T has yet to
confirm or deny that monitoring by the NSA is occurring. In April 2006, a retired
former AT&T technician, Mark Klein, lodged an affidavit supporting this allegation.
[80][81] The Department of Justice has stated it will intervene in this lawsuit by
means of State Secrets Privilege.[82]
In July 2006, the United States District Court for the Northern District of
California in which the suit was filed rejected a federal government motion to
dismiss the case. The motion to dismiss, which invoked the State Secrets Privilege,
had argued that any court review of the alleged partnership between the federal
government and AT&T would harm national security. The case was immediately appealed
to the Ninth Circuit. It was dismissed on June 3, 2009, citing retroactive
legislation in the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act.[citation needed]
In May 2006, USA Today reported that all international and domestic calling records
had been handed over to the National Security Agency by AT&T, Verizon, SBC, and
BellSouth for the purpose of creating a massive calling database.[83] The portions
of the new AT&T that had been part of SBC Communications before November 18, 2005,
were not mentioned.
On June 21, 2006, the San Francisco Chronicle reported that AT&T had rewritten
rules on its privacy policy. The policy, which took effect June 23, 2006, says that
"AT&T not customers owns customers' confidential info and can use it 'to
protect its legitimate business interests, safeguard others, or respond to legal
process.'"[84]
On August 22, 2007, National Intelligence Director Mike McConnell confirmed that
AT&T was one of the telecommunications companies that assisted with the
government's warrantless wire-tapping program on calls between foreign and domestic
sources.[85]
On November 8, 2007, Mark Klein, a former AT&T technician, told Keith Olbermann of
MSNBC that all Internet traffic passing over AT&T lines was copied into a locked
room at the company's San Francisco office to which only employees with National
Security Agency clearance had access.[86]
AT&T keeps for five to seven years a record of who text messages whom and the date
and time, but not the content of the messages.[87]
Intellectual property filtering[edit]
In January 2008, the company reported plans to begin filtering all Internet traffic
which passes through its network for intellectual property violations.[88]
Commentators in the media have speculated that if this plan is implemented, it
would lead to a mass exodus of subscribers leaving AT&T,[89] although this is
misleading as Internet traffic may go through the company's network anyway.[88]
Internet freedom proponents used these developments as justification for
government-mandated network neutrality.
Discrimination against local Public-access television channels[edit]
AT&T is accused by community media groups of discriminating against local Public,
educational, and government access (PEG) cable TV channels, by "impictions that
will severely restrict the audience".[90]
According to Barbara Popovic, Executive Director of the Chicago public-access
service CAN-TV, the new AT&T U-verse system forces all Public-access television
into a special menu system, denying normal functionality such as channel numbers,
access to the standard program guide, and DVR recording.[90] The Ratepayer
Advocates division of the California Public Utilities Commission reported: "Instead
of putting the stations on individual channels, AT&T has bundled community stations
into a generic channel that can only be navigated through a complex and lengthy
process."[90]
Sue Buske (president of telecommunications consulting firm the Buske Group and a
former head of the National Federation of Local Cable Programmers/Alliance for
Community Media) argue that this is "an overall attack [...] on public access
across the [United States], the place in the dial around cities and communities
where people can make their own media in their own communities".[90]
Information security[edit]
In June 2010, a hacker group known as Goatse Security discovered a vulnerability
within AT&T that could allow anyone to uncover email addresses belonging to
customers of AT&T 3G service for the Apple iPad.[91] These email addresses could be
accessed without a protective password.[92] Using a script, Goatse Security
collected thousands of email addresses from AT&T.[91] Goatse Security informed AT&T
about the security flaw through a third party.[93] Goatse Security then disclosed
around 114,000 of these emails to Gawker Media, which published an article about
the security flaw and disclosure in Valleywag.[91][93] Praetorian Security Group
criticized the web application that Goatse Security exploited as "poorly designed".
[91]
In April 2015, AT&T was fined $25m over data security breaches, marking the largest
ever fine issued by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) for breaking data
privacy laws. The investigation revealed the theft of details of approximately
280,000 people from call centres in Mexico, Colombia and the Philippines.[94]
Accusations of enabling fraud[edit]
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In March 2012, the United States federal government announced a lawsuit against
AT&T. The specific accusations state that AT&T "violated the False Claims Act by
facilitating and seeking federal payment for IP Relay calls by international
callers who were ineligible for the service and sought to use it for fraudulent
purposes. The complaint alleges that, out of fears that fraudulent call volume
would drop after the registration deadline, AT&T knowingly adopted a non-compliant
registration system that did not verify whether the user was located within the
United States. The complaint further contends that AT&T continued to employ this
system even with the knowledge that it facilitated use of IP Relay by fraudulent
foreign callers, which accounted for up to 95 percent of AT&T's call volume. The
government's complaint alleges that AT&T improperly billed the TRS Fund for
reimbursement of these calls and received millions of dollars in federal payments
as a result."[95]
Racism[edit]
On April 28, 2015, AT&T announced that it had fired Aaron Slator, President of
Content and Advertising Sales, for sending racist text messages.[96] Slator was
also hit with a $100 million discrimination lawsuit, filed by African-American
employee Knoyme King.[97] The day before that, protesters arrived at AT&T's
headquarters in Dallas and its satellite offices in Los Angeles as well as at the
home of CEO Randall Stephenson to protest alleged systemic racial policies.
According to accounts, the protesters are demanding AT&T begin working with 100%
black-owned media companies.[98][better source needed]
Trademark violation[edit]
In June 2016, Citigroup sued AT&T for trademark infringement, false designation of
origin, and unfair competition. The company had recently established a loyalty
program under the brand AT&T Thanks, which Citigroup claims would cause consumer
confusion as an infringement of its "ThankYou" and "Citi ThankYou" marks due to
similar wording and visual design. Citi, which also provides a co-branded credit
card for AT&T that links with its ThankYou rewards program, sought unspecified
damages and the expungement of AT&T's trademark registration.[99][100]
The suit was dismissed in August 2016, with a judge ruling that there was a low
likelihood of confusion between the two marks because the companies fall within
different industries, and that consumers who use loyalty programs would be able to
"clearly take into account the attributes associated with the products they
purchase" and, thus, be able to distinguish them.[101]
Naming rights and sponsorships[edit]
Buildings[edit]

AT&T Midtown Center in Atlanta, Georgia

AT&T 220 Building building in Indianapolis, Indiana
AT&T Building building in Detroit, Michigan
AT&T Building building in Indianapolis, Indiana
AT&T Building building in Kingman, Arizona
AT&T Building (aka "The Batman Building") in Nashville, Tennessee
AT&T Building building in Omaha, Nebraska
AT&T Building Addition building in Detroit, Michigan
AT&T Building building in San Diego
AT&T Center building in Los Angeles
AT&T Center building in St. Louis, Missouri
AT&T Center building in San Antonio, Texas
AT&T City Center building in Birmingham, Alabama
AT&T Corporate Center building in Chicago, Illinois
AT&T Huron Road Building building in Cleveland, Ohio
AT&T Lenox Park Campus AT&T Mobility Headquarters in DeKalb County just outside
Atlanta, Georgia
AT&T Midtown Center building in Atlanta, Georgia
AT&T Switching Center building in Los Angeles
AT&T Switching Center building in Oakland, California
AT&T Switching Center building in San Francisco
AT&T Tower - building in Minneapolis, MN
Whitacre Tower (One AT&T Plaza) Corporate Headquarters, Dallas, Texas
AT&T Building - building in (Meriden), CT
Venues[edit]

AT&T Center in San Antonio, Texas

AT&T Center San Antonio, Texas (formerly SBC Center)
AT&T Field Chattanooga, Tennessee (formerly BellSouth Park)
AT&T Park San Francisco, California (formerly Pacific Bell Park, SBC Park)
AT&T Plaza Chicago, Illinois (public space that hosts the Cloud Gate sculpture in
Millennium Park)
AT&T Plaza Dallas, Texas (plaza in front of the American Airlines Center at
Victory Park)
AT&T Performing Arts Center Dallas, Texas
AT&T Stadium Arlington, Texas (formerly (NFL) Dallas Cowboys Stadium)
Jones AT&T Stadium Lubbock, Texas (formerly Clifford B. and Audrey Jones Stadium,
Jones SBC Stadium)
TPC San Antonio San Antonio, Texas (AT&T Oaks Course & AT&T Canyons Course)
War Memorial Stadium, AT&T Field - Little Rock, Arkansas
Sponsorships[edit]
AT&T Byron Nelson - Irving, Texas
AT&T Champions Classic Valencia, California
AT&T Championship - San Antonio, Texas
AT&T Classic Atlanta, Georgia (formerly BellSouth Classic)
AT&T Cotton Bowl Classic (formerly Mobil Cotton Bowl Classic, Southwestern Bell
Cotton Bowl Classic, SBC Cotton Bowl Classic) played in Arlington, Texas, at AT&T
Stadium.
AT&T National Washington, D.C.
AT&T Pebble Beach National Pro-Am
AT&T Red River Rivalry Dallas, Texas (formerly Red River Shootout, SBC Red River
Rivalry)
Major League Soccer and the United States Soccer Federation, including the U.S.
men's and U.S. women's national teams and the Major League Soccer All-Star Game
from 2009
Mexico national football team
United States Olympic team[102]
National Collegiate Athletic Association (Corporate Champion)[103]
AT&T American Cup, artistic gymnastics competition. Sponsored by AT&T since 2011.
Red Bull Racing (Formula 1 racing team), technical support and sponsorship, since
2011.[104]
Miscellaneous[edit]
AT&T (SEPTA station) Public Transportation Station in Philadelphia, PA